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Eric Adams: “I have to be honest about unemployment, honest about crime…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Full interview: Mayor Eric Adams on his first 100 days in office

Published | Video Starts at 12:18

This is an FDR moment. I must tell New Yorkers, here are the problems we're facing and I have to be honest, I have to be honest about unemployment, honest about crime and the proliferation of guns, honest about the failing educational system, honest about housing. But then I must do and say to New Yorkers, here's what we have done and then we're going to roll out what we're going to do. (12:18–12:29)

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Asserts that Eric Adams acknowledges issues with unemployment, crime, gun proliferation, education, and housing.

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